How to Survive reveals the final killer whale tricks that saved lives, showing the critical actions that made the difference ...

For Van Peel the power is in bringing people together around the sperm whale’s anomalous presence. “It’s this gesture of a beast coming from another element and throwing itself at our feet ...

Scientists in New Zealand began dissecting a rare spade-toothed whale on Monday. AP Photo/Derek Morrison. Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has ...

Beaked whale expert Anton van Helden inspects a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, on December 2, 2024.

Whale expert Anton van Helden (not pictured) said the whale’s broken jaw and bruising to the head and neck led scientists to believe that head trauma may have caused its death. AP.

When a 16-foot, 3,000-pound mystery whale washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand in July, even the world’s foremost cetacean experts were taken aback. Anton van Helden, a senior marine ...

The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...

It's some sort of whale, that much we know. And though van Helden is still waiting on the DNA analysis, the Department of Conservation announced this week that it may be one of the rarest whales ...

For Van Peel the power is in bringing people together around the sperm whale’s anomalous presence. “It’s this gesture of a beast coming from another element and throwing itself at our feet ...